Take a Ride on a Canal District Wagon Tour With Your WOO Card

The weekend is fast approaching, and GoLocalWorcester brings you the best places to use your WOO Card around town for discounts and WOO Points.

Help your friends and family get in on the act as well. WOO Cards make great gifts! Share discounts and special offers at more than sixty area cultural destinations, restaurants, hotels, retailers, transportation providers and more! Best of all–WOO Cards NEVER expire!

Thursdays thru August 21st

Canal District Wagon Tours

192 Harding Street, Worcester

Free, donations accepted

Enjoy an hour-long horse drawn wagon tour through the Canal District, hearing from costumed interpreters along the way the story of how the Blackstone Canal sparked the Industrial Revolution, transforming Worcester from rural town into bustling city.

Fridays thru July 25th

Jazz at Sunset at SAC Park

438 Lake Street, Shrewsbury

Save $4 off tickets with your WOO Card

Travel back in time to enjoy the sounds of the big band era with A Tribute to Cab Calloway featuring Christopher Calloway Brooks. Concerts are RAIN OR SHINE, and held outdoors on the lawn, or under a permanent pavilion in case of inclement weather. Bring a picnic, lawn chair or blanket. Food and drinks will be available for sale as well, including a full cash bar.

Saturday, July 12th

Opening Reception for Language of a Dream at Sprinkler Factory Gallery

38 Harlow Street, Worcester

Free admission, Swipe your WOO Card for Double WOO points

Language of a Dream, a multi-media art exhibition featuring the works of Art Krauss, along with guest artists work on display including Willow Ross, Clark Britton, and Anne Condon Giancola. Reception to include Krazy Kat Jazz Jam presented by Michael Chasse and 2 Worlds/1 Heart, a dance performance.

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Cars of Summer Classic Car Show and Auction

Green Hill Park

Friday, July 4, 2014 - Sunday, July 6, 2014

7:00 AM-7:00 PM

A three day classic car show held in Green Hill Park on Skyline Drive in Worcester MA. There will be live bands, food vendors, product vendors, over 1000 collectible cars, kid zones, canoe/paddle boat rides, live auto and collectibles auction, costume characters, and bounce houses.

Worcester Brave Hearts

The Worcester Bravehearts have 56 games scheduled for its inaugural season. Included are 28 home games at Hanover Insurance Park at Fitton Field in Worcester with 15 of those games taking place on Fridays, Saturdays, or Sundays. The opening weekend includes 4 home starts with post-game fireworks on Friday, June 6.

Rowing Lessons on Lake Quinsigamond

June 14 – June 29 – 6:00AM – 8:00AM

Open to non-members. 6 sessions for beginners. Learn the fundamentals of the rowing stroke; focus on basic body positions, 2 phases of the stroke, and blade work. Become familiar with boathouse & bay rules, learn how to handle equipment safely and lake traffic patterns. Practice good boat-handling skills both on water and off water.

Worcester Art Museum

Knights! reveals the fascinating place of arms and armor in the broader context of history, storytelling, and art. Only three months after the closing of Worcester’s Higgins Armory Museum, this exhibition marks the first step in the long-term integration of arms and armor into the collection of the Worcester Art Museum.

Worcester Windows Summer 2014

Thursday, June 19, 2014 - Sunday, August 31, 2014

For its summer 2014 exhibition the Worcester Windows Community Gallery Program presents works by Worcester painter Brian Burris and a series of abstract photographs by members of the Worcester Alliance of Photographers.

Worcester Windows is a community gallery program which uses storefronts throughout downtown Worcester as exhibit space to enhance the Citys downtown and to provide display opportunities for local emerging and established artists. Originally intended simply as a means to provide exhibit opportunities, Worcester Windows has grown dramatically, successfully raising the awareness of Worcester as a Creative City by not only bringing artwork to the public and showcasing local talent, but in also establishing itself as a true community gallery through which many of the exhibiting artists have sold works.

Longsjo Classic and Family Fitness Festival

Destination Worcester, in partnership with the Longsjo Classic, Greendale Family YMCA, Blue Cross Blue Shield will host a free, fun fitness festival that supports healthy living. The event will feature a family Zumba dance party, a Kids Run, a Bike Parade, healthy living vendors and more!

The Festival will take place on Saturday, June 28, 2014 – rain or shine, from 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m., at the Worcester Common Oval behind Worcester City Hall, 455 Main Street.

Out to Lunch Summer Concert Series and Farmers Market

The Out to Lunch Summer Concert Series & Farmers' Market is back! The 2014 series kicked off on Thursday, June 19th and will run until Thursday, August 21st. Farmers' Market opens at 11:00 AM, main stage talent performs 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM.

Massachusetts Symphony Summer Concert Series

The Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra's admission-free Summer Family Concert Series has been presented each year since 1951. The first week in July each year (for the Fourth of July holiday) features a concert with fireworks at Worcester's East Park (Cristoforo Colombo Park) on Shrewsbury Street. The orchestra presents a program of Independence Holiday patriotic music, celebrated Broadway and other orchestral selections, with the concert culminating in fireworks accompanying Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture and Sousa marches.

Big Dipper Ice Cream Festival

Canal District Wagon Tours

Tours start in Kelley Square next to the Farmer's Market

Thursdays, July 3, 2014 - August 21, 2014

5:00 PM-8:00 PM

Join trained interpreters from South High School for a journey through Worcester’s Canal District as they tell the farm to factory story of the Industrial Revolution and the immigrants that made it happen.

Worcester 4th of July Celebration, Concert and Fireworks

Worcester’s annual 4th of July celebration and fireworks display is scheduled for July 3rd at East Park beginning at 6:00PM. There will be food vendors and kids’ activities followed by a ceremonial flag raising at 7:45PM followed by a performance by the Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra at 8:00PM and fireworks at 9:30PM (rain date is July 5th).

Hot Night in the City

July 9, 2014

6:30-9 p.m.

The night promises to be a hot time with cool adventures in creating, making, eating, and viewing. The Craft Center’s studios include the equipment necessary to produce using Hot processes like glass blowing, enameling, jewelry making, and firing ceramics. Hot Night in the City focuses attention on those processes as well as many of the opportunities for making that are provided annually at the Craft Center.